Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . er-formed reversed, and in place of con-verting the B. into a church, to con-vert the church into a basilica. Thiswill be eftected by simply removingthe roof from the nave, the aisles re-maining covered, and even being fre-quently furnished with galleries, asin Protestant churches. The judgesseat was generally in a circular portionof the building which jirotriided fromits further end, in which the altar wasafterwards placed (see ApSE), thegreat entrance to the B. fronting it,as the western door of a cathedralfronts
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . er-formed reversed, and in place of con-verting the B. into a church, to con-vert the church into a basilica. Thiswill be eftected by simply removingthe roof from the nave, the aisles re-maining covered, and even being fre-quently furnished with galleries, asin Protestant churches. The judgesseat was generally in a circular portionof the building which jirotriided fromits further end, in which the altar wasafterwards placed (see ApSE), thegreat entrance to the B. fronting it,as the western door of a cathedralfronts the high-altar. The space re-quired by the praetor for his courtwas separated bj a railing from theother portions of the building, whichwere devoted to the various purposeswe have mentioned. It must not besupjiosed from this descri|ition, thatthe form of the B. was always thesame. Sometimes there was no hemi- Gronnd-planof Basilica of St. Paul, 1 ? .-1 T* .. n .. Kome. cycle or apse, as in the b. at Pompeii, in wliich case the tribunal was cut off from the nave; sometimes. BASILIC ATA—BASILISK. 533 tliere were two, as in the B. of Trajan. Aj^ain, the B. was some-times entered, not from the end, but from the sides, wliere tlietransepts of a modern eliurch are situated; and at tlie end ojjpositethat in wliicli the tribunal was placed, tliere was often a row ofsmall cliambers. tlie uses of which do not seem to be very ac-curately ascertained, and probably were not invariable. In theplan of the B. of Pompeii, there was an outside stair wliieli led tothe ui)per -allery, which in this case passed entirely round thebuildini;-. The gallery was the place to which loiterers usuallyresorted for the purpose of watching tlie business proceedingsbelow; and the one half of it is said to have been devoted to men,tlic oilier, to women. Of the vast size of some of these liuildiiigs,we may form a conception from the accommodation which uuisthave been required for the tribunal alone, where, in a
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